The campaign against Pius XII

Published: 12 February 2007

Reasonable people can debate whether Pope Pius's strategic decision to
avoid an explicit, public condemnation of Nazism to saving lives was
the correct one. But it takes a certain bias, contradicted by many
facts, to conclude that this decision was taken on the basis of
cowardice. It takes even worse bias to conclude that it was taken
because of anti-Semitism. Why, then, the campaign of defamation, which
has reached the point where one overhears tourists in St Peter's
Basilica, spotting the bronze statue of Pius XII erected by his
cardinals, whispering, "That's 'Hitler's Pope'"? - George Weigel